at the mercy of
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ y ǎ ngsu í R é n, which means every move is at the mercy of others. It comes from sending Li Gongshu to the palace.
The origin of Idioms
Song Sushi's poem "sending Li Gongshu to the palace" said: "an Neng is always in the dust, and he looks up to others like an orange."
Idiom usage
It means that everything is controlled by others. example Zongheng has its own cloud pen, but it is pitiful to follow others. The second one of Jin · Yuan Haowen's poems on Poetry
Chinese PinYin : fǔ yǎng suí rén
at the mercy of
just a flourish of the pen and it 's done. yī huī ér jiù
suffer from an unrighted wrong or grievance. fù qū xián yuān